Federal Court Convicts Qualcomm in a "Son of Rambus" Suit

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Mar 25, 2007 10:40 PM EDT
ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove
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A Federal Court has found Qualcomm Corporation guilty of the same type of conduct for which the FTC slammed memory technology maker Rambus: failing to disclose its patents in a standards process, only to assert its "submarine" patents after that standard had been widely adopted.

The court upheld a jury's unanimous verdict that Qualcomm had abused the standards process by failing to make timely patent disclosures during a standard setting process.

Cases involving standards abuse are infrequent, but Qualcomm and Broadcom are currently involved in as many separate pieces of standards-related litigation as the entire industry usually indulges in over a period of years. The current case was brought by Qualcomm in October 2005, and involved two patents that it later alleged would be infringed by implementing H.264, a video compression standard.

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